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Ex-Soviet engines fingered after Antares ROCKET launch BLAST

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Re: Depressing

"I don't understand this either. Why you would spend all this money building a rocket and loading it with supplies, then using an antique engine to power it is beyond me.

That's like a car manufacturer selling a new car with a second hand engine in it."

It's called cost-cutting. Companies do this because it's often more important to give shareholders huge dividends and their executives massive bonuses, than make a sound product.

Just one of the perils of leaving mission-critical stuff to the private sector.

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